US Patent Issued to Analog Devices International UnLtd. on April 29 for "Low power idle PHY link synchronization" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,387, issued on April 29, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Low power idle PHY link synchronization" was invented by Niall Fitzgerald (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for synchronizing a lower-power idle state. The systems and methods perform operations comprising: initializing, by a master physical layer (PHY) controller, a connection over a network with a slave PHY controller; during initialization, synchronizing a low power idle (LPI) timer of the master PHY controller with a LPI timer of the slave PHY controller; establishing an offset between the LP...